Maintenance Technicians – Franklin, KY
MATALCO (U.S.) – We are North America’s largest independent aluminum billet and slab provider, using recycled aluminum and state-of-the art technology. Our plant has launched and is now working hard to meet our customers’ needs. We are currently seeking candidates to fill a night shift opening for our multi-craft maintenance department, a team that’s key to keeping us up and running!
You will:
- Work safely and smartly, following our procedures, safety protocols, and training.
- Install, inspect, adjust, and repair equipment.
- Use your expertise when responding to production needs and equipment failures.
- Recommend improvements to processes and procedures.
- Perform all preventative and predictive maintenance and repairs to all equipment, ensuring equipment is properly serviced to maintain its proper lifespan.
- Monitor operations through PM checks to anticipate and prevent any possible production loss due to equipment failure.
- Respond quickly to breakdowns and safety concerns, resolving issues and keeping downtime to a minimum.
- Report deviations, out of service or non-conforming equipment or operations in order for the team to make corrections or adjustments to processes and equipment.
- Maintains a spare parts warehouse to ensure all crucial parts and components, including consumables, are on hand at a moment’s notice.
Preferred Qualifications
- Post-secondary education in automation, controls, engineering or equivalent experience.
- Min. 2 years of experience in a fast-paced manufacturing environment or foundry industry or maintenance experience within an aluminum or hot metal industry.
- Excellent understanding of hydraulics, pneumatics, combustion, electrical and mechanical maintenance.
- Excellent understanding of PM.
Essential Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities
- 100% commitment to following safety requirements.
- Experience maintaining cranes and performing crane inspections.
- Excellent math, reading, and blueprint reading skills.
- Solid understanding of PLCs as well as PM software utilization.
- Excellent problem-solving skills, essential to fixing production equipment and manufacturing system issues.
- Physical endurance and the ability to handle several urgent tasks at once.
- Reliable and stable work attendance.
- Basic PC understanding preferred and an ability to learn Windows/web-based programs.
- Capable of safely rigging and moving some heavy equipment components.
- Hands on experience using preventative maintenance system software.
- A team player capable of working with minimal supervision.
- Good communication skills to interact with operators, supervisors, managers, and vendors/partners.
- OSHA/KYOSH helpful.
When will you work?
- We are a 24/7 company. Our maintenance team works 12-hour shifts on a rotating schedule, which means you will work some weekends and holidays. It also means you are generally scheduled to work 15 days a month and off 15 days a month. We are looking to fill a 6p-6a shift.
Where will you work, and what’s the physical environment like?
- Our production facility in Franklin, KY.
- High frequency visually monitoring production processes for quality defects and of HMI and PLC panels.
- Regular frequency of visually monitoring scrap conditions/types.
- Frequent data entry of necessary information.
- Frequent visual and audio monitoring of processes.
- Low frequency of hot metal work, confined space entry, and lifting up to 50 lbs.
- Low frequency using forklift/mobile equipment.
- Low frequency lifting, bending, pushing, pulling, walking and reaching to/working in tight areas.
- Low frequency climbing over 4 feet.
- Low frequent operation of overhead crane.
- Mostly indoor work with constant exposure to outside elements, including some outdoor work.
- Long-term exposure to variable ambient temperatures and to loud noises.
- Some exposure to fumes.
- Some work in confined spaces.
What’s in it for you?
- Competitive pay based upon your skills and experience; tell us what pay you seek.
- $1.00 per hour shift differential.
- Eligible for monthly safety, training, and KPI incentives.
- Benefits: medical, dental, vision, company paid life insurance, company paid short-disability, uniforms, safety shoes (up to $200), health savings account, paid vacation, paid holidays, tuition reimbursement, hefty employee referral program, and all PPE.